Bengaluru: A youth who tweeted about bombing the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) has been arrested by the City police. The arrested has been identified as Vaibhav (20), an engineering student.
Vaibhav had wrote on his Twitter account that, “I will bomb the blr airport j so they can rebuild one closer to the city”.
However, the tweet was soon deleted by him after it gathered attention on social media.
Following a complaint from the airport’s Terminal Manager, the Kempegowda Airport Police Station registered a Non-Cognisable Report (NCR).
According to sources, the police later filed a First Information Report (FIR) under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) based on an order from Devanahalli’s Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class.
The Devanahalli police and the Bengaluru northeast Cyber Economic and Narcotic Crime (CEN) Police began their investigation and arrested Ganesh.
